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[[File:A View in the Jungle Terry - William Hodges.jpg|thumb|265px|''A View in the Jungle Terry'' by [[William Hodges]], 1782.]]
'''Jungle Terry''' or '''Jungleterry''', from {{lang-hi|जंगल तराई}} ''jangal tarāi'', meaning 'jungle lowland', was a term applied in the 18th century to an area bordering Bengal and Bihar that included large tracts of [[Bhagalpur district|Bhagalpur]] and [[Monghyr district|Monghyr]] districts, as well as the [[Santal Parganas district]].

Although named as such, rather than an official district the Jungle Terry was a vague border area. The district named [[Jungle Mahals]] would be established later in 1805.<ref name=gazeteer1>[http://www.dli.gov.in/cgi-bin/metainfo.cgi?&title1=bengal%20district%20gazetteers%20bankura&author1=o%27malley,%20l.s.s&subject1=west%20bengal%28india%29,%20statistics&year=1908%20&language1=english&pages=207&barcode=99999990038739&author2=&identifier1=&publisher1=&contributor1=&vendor1=NONE&scanningcentre1=ignca&scannerno1=&digitalrepublisher1=&digitalpublicationdate1=0000-00-00&numberedpages1=&unnumberedpages1=&rights1=OUT_OF_COPYRIGHT&copyrightowner1=&copyrightexpirydate1=&format1=tagged%20image%20file%20format%20&url=/data8/upload/0236/022 Bengal District Gazetteers Bankura]{{dead link|date=January 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, 1908, Barcode(99999990038739), Language english, pp. 21-41, 1995 reprint, Government of West Bengal from [http://www.dli.gov.in Digital Library of India] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160229163832/http://www.dli.gov.in/ |date=2016-02-29 }}</ref>

==Geography==
The Jungle Terry was located in the present-day [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|states]] of [[West Bengal]], [[Bihar]] and [[Jharkhand]]. It was an ill-defined thickly forested region inhabited by tribal groups such as the [[Bhumij people|Bhumij]], the [[Santhal people|Santhal]] and the [[Munda people]]. [[William Hodges]] mentions that the Jungle Terry was located to the west of [[Bhagalpur|Bauglepore]] (Bhagalpur).<ref name=Hobson/>

The area included the [[Rajmahal Hills]]; towns that were close to the area according to James Browne included, besides Bauglepoor or Boglypour ([[Bhagalpur]]), Curruckpoor ([[Haveli Kharagpur]]), Colgong ([[Kahalgaon]]), Birboom ([[Birbhum]]), Curruckdea ([[Kharagdiha]]) and Guidore ([[Gidhaur]]).<ref>Browne, James (1788). ''India tracts: containing a description of the Jungle Terry districts, their revenues, trade, and government: with a plan for the improvement of them. Also an history of the origin and progress of the Sicks''</ref>

Map number two of [[James Rennell]]'s 1779 ''Bengal Atlas'' has the title "Jungleterry District",<ref name=Hobson>Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell, ''Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India'', Oxford University Press. p. 291</ref> but the name 'Jungle Terry' itself does not show on the map. [[Bishop Reginald Heber]] comments that the "Jungleterry" district is very fertile and that theft, murder and highway robberies are a rare occurrence in it.<ref>''Bishop Heber in Northern India: Selections from Heber's Journal'', p. 110</ref>

==See also==
*[[Jungle Mahals]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.dli.gov.in/cgi-bin/metainfo.cgi?&title1=bengal%20district%20gazetteers%20bankura&author1=o%27malley,%20l.s.s&subject1=west%20bengal%28india%29,%20statistics&year=1908%20&language1=english&pages=207&barcode=99999990038739&author2=&identifier1=&publisher1=&contributor1=&vendor1=NONE&scanningcentre1=ignca&scannerno1=&digitalrepublisher1=&digitalpublicationdate1=0000-00-00&numberedpages1=&unnumberedpages1=&rights1=OUT_OF_COPYRIGHT&copyrightowner1=&copyrightexpirydate1=&format1=tagged%20image%20file%20format%20&url=/data8/upload/0236/022 Bengal District Gazetteers Bankura]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, O’Malley, L.S.S., 1908, Barcode(6010010076000), Language English, Geography,Travels And Description from [http://www.dli.gov.in Digital Library of India]
*[http://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/100206083 The Jungleterry District map]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=V1o_PRCLOeMC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=jungle+mahals&source=bl&ots=dZto0Fdpmp&sig=VH9QNWhBalsaiobJbg9VoefA4tw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-3HkU6jRKozt8AXjxICADQ&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=jungle%20mahals&f=false The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140810045940/https://www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.54596.LATEST!7.forest%20tenures%20in%20west%20bengal.pdf Forest Tenures in the Jungle Mahals of South West Bengal]
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